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Topic: PLS help me, experts, i am so worried (Read 3270 times)

HI, i'm from China, and i'm new here. my English is not very good so i hope you all can understand what i am saying. because i need you help. thanks in advance.

my questions are listed as follow:

A prostitute used her hands doing masturbation for me, i know mastubation isn't dangerous, but my situation is a little complicated.

During the process, my fingers, especially my thumbs touched her outside sex organ.(sorry i don't know how to spell the exact name of woman's penis, hope you can understand.), but i haven't insert them inside the vagina. but you know woman's outside sex organ is always a little wet,maybe sweat, maybe other female thing. anyway, my thumbs have touched this material. then i touched her back and breast, after a few minutes, i asked her help me wear condom, but maybe the condom was too small, she could't put it on. and her fingernailswere very long, my penis inner circular skin was "peeled" by her nails, i felt a little hurt but i didn't pay any attention until i went home then i noticed the cut, it was a little cut about 2 square MMs and there was a little blood, very very little. and it didn't pain at that time, i felt nothing.

what worrys me is that, as i mentioned she couldn't help me wear the condom ,then i helped myself. i was sure at that time, the cut was already there, and my thumbs touched the condom and my penis circular skin. and my thumbs were contaminated by her outside sex organ, So does it possible to get HIV virus by this?

and there is one thing should be pointed out, between my fingers touched her sex organ and my penis skin, several minutes have passed, and my fingers have touched her body and is already dry.

my other 2 questions are:1,the conception of body fruid, especially vaginal fruid. does the wet material on femal's outside sex organ can be treated as vaginal fruid? is this wet material dangerous for AIDS?

2,how long HIV virus can survive outside human body, for instance, on my finger. and is the dry fruid contagious or not contagious?

so pls experts help me answer my question, i was very glad finding this forum, and thank you all.

You did not have a risk. HIV is a very fragile virus and when exposed to air inhibits the transmission due to the virus degrading. It's not vaginal fluid that you would be concerned about if you had had a risk. It's the cervical fluid that contains the higher level of the virus.

Does "HIV is a very fragile virus and when exposed to air inhibits the trans mission do to the virus degrading." means HIV virus can not transmit in the air?and i've heard vaginal fruid is very dangerous.

sorry, i am still so worried, because in my case there was an open cut. i know the chance is very little, but does it possible for the virus to invade my body through that small cut.

and i am eagerly hope someone can explain my two question specifically,

1,the conception of body fruid, especially vaginal fruid. does the wet material on femal's outside sex organ can be treated as vaginal fruid? is this wet material dangerous for AIDS?

2,how long HIV virus can survive outside human body, for instance, on my finger. and is the dry fruid contagious or not contagious?

i'm sorry i am so stubborn,because i am worried to death. hope some moderators can help.thank you

dog, you do not get infected by fingering even if you have cuts, nicks, hangnails, scrapes or abrasions on your finger and you were deep fingering her. Vaginal fluid contains less virus than cervical fluids. That why no one gets infected from eating snatch. You do not catch AIDS. HIV is the cause of AIDS. When the virus is exposed to air its outter envelope bursts and prevents the virus from being able to infect.

what Rapid was trying to say is that you need deep penetration to reach the area where the virus is able to live. A simple fingering is of no concern. If you have a big one, I would suggest that you come to the next encounter with your own condoms, so that size is not a problem. Look for Ann's condom link for more info.

rapid,"When the virus is exposed to air it out envelope bursts and prevents the virus from being able to infect" does that mean the virus die in the air immediately? (sorry i don't know the technical terms).if it's true, then i am reasured.

You more than likely had a scratch from the woman's fingernail rather than what you call "a cut." For the situation to have been risky it would have had to have been an open wound on your penis into which cervical fluids were being poured.

Did that happen? No, I didn't think so.

Theoretical risks such as you have described as just that -- theoretical. In the real world of HIV transmission doesn't happen through the kind of nick, scratch, irritation or other which often happen during sex play including your touching the clitoral area and then touching a scratch on your penis.